Re: Learning songs by ear
^^ This ^^
The way we all learned to play guitar back before digital music was to sit next to the turntable and keep picking up the needle and placing it back where that Jimmy Page solo started and trying to get notes out of it until we more or less got it.
For chords, it was Find The Bass Notes, then refine those chord choices (minor, augmented, etc.) and write them down. After a while, I learned to recognize chord intervals by ear and could anticipate chord changes enough to only need to figure out which key a song was played. The rest I could usually get after once or twice through.
The ear is trainable, but it takes time and repetition.
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